RFG Advisory, the Birmingham, Ala.-based hybrid RIA platform with about $5 billion in shopper property, has named Shannon Spotswood, its present president, as its new CEO. Spotswood succeeds Bobby White, who has led the agency since its founding in 2003.
Efficient instantly, White will transition to an government chairman function.
“On this capability, he’ll proceed to offer steerage and perception, making certain that the corporate’s imaginative and prescient and values are upheld as we transfer ahead,” in line with an organization assertion. “Bobby White, the visionary founding father of RFG, constructed the corporate from the bottom up. His willingness to embrace change has been instrumental as we’ve reinvented ourselves via digital transformation and innovation. Bobby’s management has set a robust basis for the corporate, and his affect will proceed to be felt.”
RFG Chief Funding Officer Rick Wedell will take over as RFG’s president whereas retaining his CIO duties.
Spotswood joined RFG in 2015 and have become president in February 2016. She has led the agency’s day-to-day operations for the final 9 years. Earlier than becoming a member of RFG, she was a portfolio supervisor and director of long-only fairness methods for Symphony Asset Administration, a San Francisco-based hedge fund. Previous to that, she was an funding banker with Volpe Brown Whelan & Co.
Final yr, Spotswood helped the agency entice its first outdoors investor when it bought a majority stake to Lengthy Ridge Fairness Companions, a non-public fairness agency that beforehand backed Carson Group, earlier than promoting its stake to Bain Capital in 2021.
In March, RFG employed Abby Salameh, CAIS’ former chief advertising officer, as its chief development officer. The agency additionally added Brendan Frazier, founding father of Wired Planning, as its new chief behavioral officer and Kenneth Kim, who beforehand led company growth and technique for FNZ’s North America area, as chief monetary officer.
White is the newest trade founder and CEO to step down. Others who’ve stepped apart lately embrace Randy Lengthy of SageView Advisory Group, Allworth’s Pat McClain and Scott Hanson, Edelman Monetary Engines’ Larry Raffone, and Carson Group’s Ron Carson.
